Felicia+S.

SUMMARY: "Felicia" S., age 16, died March 6, 1970 after a legal abortion performed in a San Francisco, CA hospital.

A 16-year-old girl underwent a safe and legal second-trimester saline abortion on August 26, 1969. At that time, California allowed abortions as long as they were performed by doctors in hospitals. A journal article on her death identifies her as "F.S." I'll call her "Felicia."

Felicia developed an infection and symptoms of meningitis after her abortion. She continued to be treated for ten days before she was transferred to another hospital in San Francisco for further treatment.

Doctors performed two heart valve replacements on Felicia, and had scheduled her for yet another before she died on March 6, 1970. The cause of death was severe congestive heart failure and pneumonia.

LDI Source: "Medical and Surgical Complications of Therapeutic Abortions," Stewart, Goldstein, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 40:4, October 1972, p. 547

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